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Paul Pelosi’s alleged attacker David DePape was frequently homeless, “mentally ill” and frequently used drugs, according to his former girlfriend Oxane “Gypsy” Taub. “This person really does suffer from mental illness and that is probably why he was there at 2 a.m,” she said. “I don’t think he became a Trump supporter,” Taub said. “He was against the government, but if anything he was opposed to the shadow government, against the people who really run the government and use politicians as puppets. Like Trump was a puppet. David and I were against the shadow government.” Paul Pelosi’s accused assailant suffered...

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Despite what you've seen on TV, the war in Iraq is not yet over. The mopping up should take quite a few weeks, and paradoxically, casualties may be higher during this phase, as U.S. and allied troops root out the remaining cells of the Fedayeen Saddam, Republican Guard "dead-enders", and some thousands of Palestinian, Syrian, and other foreign terrorists and death squads. They have no reason to give up: for they know, as the world is beginning to know, that the Iraqi people will kill them if the allied military doesn't get them first. Nor is the danger from chemical...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. Marines fought a fierce four-hour battle on Thursday at a Baghdad mosque where senior Iraqi leaders had been thought to be holed up, as U.S. warplanes attacked areas of the city under the control of Arab fighters. Fighting was also reported near an oil refinery in southwestern Baghdad. Reuters cameraman Ahmed Bahaddou saw U.S. troops collecting 21 bodies, apparently Iraqi soldiers and civilians, on a road leading toward the international airport. Witnesses said other corpses had already been picked up. U.S. military officials said one Marine was killed and more than 20 wounded north of the...

While Networks Show Jubilant Iraqis, Americans Shoot At Anyone Who Moves 09.04.2003 [22:03] While networks around the world are showing pictures of jubilant Iraqis, albeit in areas that have suffered most under his regime including the very poor Saddam city and the Kurds in the North, the International Red Cross says that the situation in downtown Baghdad is another story. In a phone interview from the centre of Baghdad, Red Cross representatives said that the situation is very hostile and that the American forces are "shooting at anything that moves", including one of their own convoys. At the time of...

By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press Writer CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar - Coalition aircraft and artillery destroyed several Iraqi armored vehicles that streamed out of the besieged city of Basra overnight, the top British commander in the Gulf said Thursday. Air Marshal Brian Burridge said he didn't have specifics on how many of the estimated 120 tanks and armored personnel carriers heading south out of Basra toward British troops were destroyed, or what type of weaponry was used against them. British pool reports said U.S. Navy (news - web sites) F-18 Super Hornets and Royal Air Force Harrier ground attack jets...